Crucially, distances defined relative to a single, androgynous prototype instead of the two gender-specific prototypes ("distance-to-overall-barycentre") never explained variance in BOLD signal better than distance-to-mean defined relative to gender-specific prototypes (Supplemental Information).
"Generally I've been motivated to attain a better understanding of how racial and gender stereotypes and prototypes influence leader perceptions, inequitable relationships, and workplace discrimination," she says.
Thus, Experiment 1 provides strong evidence for a relation between TVA activity and acoustical similarity to (gender-specific) voice prototypes that is not simply explained by adaptation effects.
[1] "The Strong, Sensitive Type: Effects of Gender Stereotypes and Leadership Prototypes on the Evaluation of Male and Female Leaders".
Once you've punched some profile data into a mobile app (personality traits, music collection, age and gender), a BBC Research and Development (R&D) prototype will customise the look, sound, feel, narrative, character focus and even shot choices of the film to suit or challenge you.
The prototype characters were kept as non-specific as possible to encourage identification - only a first name (gender) was provided to make the prototype more understandable.
Still, the least obvious conclusion to be drawn from the Von Dutch trucker cap phenomenon might be that it originated among a bunch of gender-obsessed young lesbians -- the prototypes for Bobbie the Dykedoll.
Then, drawing implications from these results, we designed and implemented features for our spreadsheet prototype that took the gender differences into account.
The point of using prototypes is to disassociate the concepts of masculine and feminine from gender and to avoid gender stereotypes.
The results of an evaluation on this prototype showed improvements for both males and females, and also decreased gender differences in some outcome measures, such as confidence.
